Food Service Worker

6 days ago


Stanford, California, United States Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Full time
Job Summary

This role is responsible for providing exceptional food service to patients, families, and staff at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the food service team to ensure timely and efficient delivery of patient trays, retail, and catering services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Prepare and assemble patient trays, retail, and catering services in a timely and sanitary manner.
  • Maintain a clean and organized dish room, wash dishes, utensils, pots, and pans.
  • Remove and dispose of trash, clean and maintain food service areas as directed.
  • Involved in training of new employees.
Essential Functions
  • Food Service Activities: Maintains adequate supplies of dishes, cups, flatware, and napkins on the serving line; sets up and refills condiments, dispensers, and food pans; portions food items for patient trays according to each patient's diet ticket; pours juice, coffee, and other drinks; serving food on tray lines; checking patient trays for accuracy; delivery of patient trays, enteral formula, and snacks; stocking patient care units and other department with food and supplies; cashier and cash handling procedures; stocking and replenishing retail and catering areas; serving retail customers; set up and break down of retail and catering functions; alerting supervisors and managers of items that are low on stock; putting away food and food service supplies. Request needed products from procurement; Check supplies or food products delivered by supplier to be sure they meet the type, quantity, and quality. Setting up, delivering and cleanup of catering functions, ensures that special catered menu are ready for distribution at prearranged times; the preparation of specialty coffee drinks and other barista functions, special meal functions by setting and decorating tables; preparing sack lunches, snacks, and other special requests.
  • Food Preparation: Prepares simple foods according to standardized menus, recipes, or verbal instructions given by supervisor; makes salads, dressings, gelatin, toast, or sandwiches; bakes frozen cookie dough and pizzas; cleans, cuts, and chops vegetables and fruits; slices meats, cheeses, and breads; cuts desserts; adjusts recipe quantities to eliminate excessive waste of food products; filling drink machines, mixing beverages, making coffee, specialty coffee drinks, and preparing box lunches or snacks; uses various types of commercial kitchen equipment such as ovens, grills, fryers, mixers, slicers, and choppers; prepares simple desserts such as fruit salads, gelatins, puddings and parfaits; slices and wraps bread and other baked items; presents and observes food to be sure it is visually appealing.
  • Cleaning Activities: Clears dirty dishes and trays from tables; cleans tables, chairs, sinks, counters, fountains, and serving area; sweeps and mops floors; wipes spills; collects and removes trash; replaces trash can liners; washes trays and carts; sorts and stacks dishes, glasses, and utensils; washes dishes, pots, and pans; fills and empties dishwasher and stacks clean dishes, glasses, and cups; cleans coffee pots, blenders, pop machine dispensers, ice cream and hot chocolate machines, and other commercial equipment.
  • Recordkeeping: Keeps records of the amount of food prepared, amount served or distributed, and amount left over; records changes when recipes are altered; checks and records temperature and fills in HACCP logs including: dual code taste panel, refrigeration, cooked food, holding food, sanitation and cooling food.
Relationships with Others

Employees in this class have regular in-person contact with patients, medical staff, and/or the public while serving food and cleaning food service area. Employees have occasional contact by telephone and in person with service representatives when equipment needs repairs.

Supervision Received

Employees in this class receive general supervision from a manager or supervisor who assigns work verbally or through written instructions. Work is reviewed by observation on a daily basis to ensure work standards and procedures are followed, to check for adequate staffing, and to ensure conformance with safety and sanitation procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

Education: High School diploma or GED equivalent.

Experience: 1 year of food or customer service experience.

License/Certification: None required.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
  • Ability to establish and maintain respectful relationships with a diverse population.
  • Ability to prioritize work assignments and use time efficiently.
  • Ability to speak, read, write, and understand English effectively at a level appropriate for the job.
  • Ability to take direction from patient care providers to meet the needs of the individual, including age related requirements.
  • Ability to work effectively as a team player.
  • Ability to work with any patient, customer, or coworker, regardless of race, gender, disease process, life-style, religious or cultural beliefs, or treatment.
  • Knowledge of and ability to use kitchen and general cleaning materials and equipment.
  • Knowledge of basic food preparation practices, common table setting, and the ability to learn the methods and procedures of large-scale kitchen work.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

The Physical Requirements and Working Conditions in which the job is typically performed are available from the Occupational Health Department. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Pay Range

Compensation is based on the level and requirements of the role. Salary within our ranges may also be determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities, as required by the role, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Typically, new team members join at the minimum to mid salary range.

Minimum to Midpoint Range (1.0 FTE): $59,425.60 to $66,684.80

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, LPCH does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements, and where applicable, in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.



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